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ation on this subject iii which some bright boy or girl will be 

 interested, (and girls can do this work just as well as boys,) 

 and you will have growing up among you persons familiar 

 with all these things. . 



Another point. Offer a premium in money — a good rOund 

 one — make it twenty-five or fifty dollars — for the best collec- 

 tion of useful and injurious insects, showing their different 

 stages, properly labeled, with the scientific and common 

 names, to become the property of the Society, and you can 

 put it in some school like this, or in some place where it can 

 be made serviceable, so that all who get an insect may know 

 where to come to find the name of it, and to get some notion 

 in regard to its character. Put that collection in the care of 

 some school-teacher, or some person, lady or gentleman, girl 

 or boy, who will take an interest in the subject, so that it will 

 be a sort of centre of information, and stimulate persons to 

 cultivate the habit of looking at these things. If you will do 

 this, in twenty-five years, if they will not do it anywhere else, 

 you will be the centre of information to all the surrounding 

 country, and people will come here to learn about these 

 things. But if you do it, it will be done elsewhere, and we 

 shall all get along nicely together, 



One word more. I will say, that probably the best material 

 for killing insects is slacked lime, wliicli is not only a very 

 fine powder, but it is a thing which, if it touches a soft insect, 

 like a slug, is sure death, because of its caustic property. 

 That will beat the Grafton fertilizer. 



Adjourned to two o'clock, 



